Stalinism Lives

I’m serious. The Bush Executive Orders are just plain dictatorship, and it seems to be all about what he can get away with, not what is right, needed or supportive of US democracy. The man is killing the American dream, and thus, Hillary Clinton’s line “It’s about the American Dream, stupid” will play well if people come to realize how much Bush has moved his country toward Joe Steel-style rule. Read for yourself:

In an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Mr. Bush said that each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing guidance to regulated industries. The White House will thus have a gatekeeper in each agency to analyze the costs and the benefits of new rules and to make sure the agencies carry out the president’s priorities.

How is that different from the good old Communist days when the Kremlin’s man was always watching over your shoulder. A political appointee overseeing all aspects of the regulatory regime?

Ideology is simply this: it is a germ of good idea wildly metastasized so that it chokes off and kills good thinking in every area that exceeds its initial insight.

Bush and everything he has wrought needs to be cut out of the tissue of the US like one cuts out a tumor.